The use of detectability indices as a means of automatic exposure control for a digital mammography system

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7961, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Salvagnini, Elena ^a,c   Bosmans, Hilde ^a   Monnin, Pascal ^b   Struelens, Lara ^c   Verdun, Francis ^b   Marshall, Nicholas W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^c BELGIAN NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTRE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

AEC; contrast details; detectability index; FFDM; image quality; SdNR; structured background

Indexed keywords

AEC; CONTRAST-DETAILS; DETECTABILITY INDEX; FFDM; SDNR; STRUCTURED BACKGROUND;

ESTERS; EXPOSURE CONTROLS; GOLD; IMAGE QUALITY; MEDICAL IMAGING; SELENIUM;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

EID: 79955785822     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.878119     Document Type: Conference Paper

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